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These documents provide details of the Department of Energy and Climate Change Low Carbon Energy Demonstration: Offshore Wind Demonstration Call: General Block Exemption Regulation (Ref to be confirmed).
DECC commissioned an independent study to assess UK port capacity to deliver the UK's offshore wind ambitions.
(1386KB)On 30 March 2009, DECC held a UK Ports Seminar to bring together UK ports, offshore wind developers, wind turbine manufacturers, financial community and Government to examine how the UK should develop it ports for this sector, what the issues were and the role of stakeholders and Government in facilitating the required investment.
Presentations from the seminar are available below.
(840KB) (1056KB) (2020KB) (1138KB)For more information regarding the Prospectus please email enquiries@ukrenewables.com
"The UK has a unique maritime heritage; its ports industry remains the largest in Europe, having underpinned the UK’s industrial capability for hundreds of years. This success has been based on ports’ responsiveness to the changing demands of the national and global economy.
There is enormous potential around the UK coastline for offshore wind generation. The rapidly developing UK offshore wind industry is now the largest in the world with around 600MW installed and in January the UK Government published an Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) which assesses the impact of a draft plan for 25GW of new generation in addition to the 8GW which is currently in development.
The potential for wind generation around the UK coastline and the burgeoning offshore wind industry presents a fantastic new opportunity for the ports sector. With the choice of construction port having a major bearing on project economics, wind turbine manufacturers and developers have challenging requirements for ports if they are to be used as construction or manufacturing bases" (quote taken from UK Ports Prospectus Foreword)
